Blood, Mormons, asylums, Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bushman Bread
Today's Unprotected Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Minneapolis city worker is worried about blood in the sewer system because while he was cleaning the system, blood sprayed out of a hole and got all over him. "We could tell it was blood, I mean, a large amount of blood," said Minneapolis Sewer Maintenance Worker Ron Huebner. It happened in March 2007 in Northeast Minneapolis near a lab that does medical testing and dumps blood into the sewer. It is
allowed, but the city is now making changes to help protect workers in the future. "Blood just all over my face, in my mouth, I could taste it. It was terrible. I had it in my mouth and I kept spitting and I couldn't get rid of it," said Huebner. Huebner said he hasn't been sleeping much. He's worried about the blood that he swallowed when he was operating a jet machine to clean out the sewer. The Met Council said it was a mix of human and animal blood used in medical testing at this nearby lab. In fact, the company, R & D Systems, does have a permit to dump blood in the sewer system. However, Huebner wasn't protected or warned about the blood because his immediate bosses didn't know about it. "We have changed the procedure to ensure they're wearing goggles or a face mask while they are above that manhole," said Hamilton. The Met Council is changing the permit to say that the city has to warn the lab it's coming to clean the sewer, and the lab has to stop discharging blood until they're done. R & D told the city that the blood shouldn't present any risk, but Huebner's still worried. "I'm going to hope that nothing's wrong with me, but I don't want to see this happen to anyone else in my department," said Huebner.
Culled from: WCCO.Com
Generously submitted by: Marco
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Okay, here's what I don't understand about this story: if your job is to clean sewers, isn't blood spraying out all over you the LEAST of your concerns??? Wouldn't you be covered head to toe in some sort of protective gear anyway?
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The Comtesse Recommends...
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
I'm ashamed to admit my naivety, but I never knew that Mormons could be so morbid! I mean, I've always thought of them as quite insane, but in a happy-happy-joy-joy wholesome Osmond holy underwear "no caffeine please" kind of way. But after reading this fascinating book, well, I've gained an entirely different perspective! Jon Krakauer exposes the grim truth behind Mormon fundamentalism, which (like most fundamentalist beliefs) basically amounts to a group of selfish men figuring out that when it comes to indulging in their darkest fantasies, there's no better scapegoat than God.
You want to kill your brother's wife? "God told me to do it!" You want to screw around with as many women as possible without guilt? "God told me to do it!" You want to slaughter people who don't share your beliefs who happen to be passing through your territory? "God told me to do it!" You want to impregnate your 12-year-old daughter? "God told me to do it!" There's literally NOTHING that you can't get away with!
And sadder still are the women who have been indoctrinated into this cruel subculture which teaches little girls that obedience is the supreme virtue. This naturally results in brainwashed girls like Elizabeth Smart feeling that she must willingly submit to her kidnapper "husband" without any attempt to escape, and it makes a 12-year-old girl feel that she is "sinful" if she resists her father's incestuous advances because God told him to do it. There are some truly sickening stories within these pages.
More than anything else, Under the Banner of Heaven is a compelling warning against the very real dangers of blind faith, regardless of what particular belief a person may ascribe too. A chilling read. (Hate mail to the usual address, please!)
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Morbid Link Du Jour!
The Clark County (Nevada) Coroner's Office has a website displaying the unidentified Las Vegas dead. Take a look - and perhaps what happens in Vegas *won't* stay in Vegas for a change!
Thanks to feanix for the link.
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Urban Exploration!
GK sends me the link to an Abandoned Asylums webring. There are some very interesting sites linked here.
Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bushman Bread
Along with an entree at this popular steakhouse chain comes a freshly baked loaf of this dark, sweet bread... served on its own cutting board with soft whipped butter. One distinctive feature of the bread is its color. How does the bread get so dark? While you may notice the recipe includes instant coffee and cocoa, these ingredients will not give the bread its deep dark chocolate brown color - not even close. Usually breads that are this dark - such as pumpernickel or dark bran muffins - contain caramel color, an ingredient often used in the industry to darken foods. Since your local supermarket will not likely have this mostly commercial product, we will make the caramel color from a mixture of three food colorings -- red, yellow, and blue. Just be sure to get the food coloring in the little droppers so that you can count the drops as you measure. That's very important to getting the color just right. You may also opt to keep the color out. The bread will certainly taste the same, but will look nothing like the real deal. I suggest using a bread machine for the mixing and kneading, if you have one.
Dough
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup honey
2 cups bread flour
1 2/3 cups wheat flour
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
2 teaspoons instant coffee
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 teaspoon (1 package) yeast
Coloring
1/4 cup water
75 drops red food coloring
45 drops blue food coloring
30 drops yellow food coloring
cornmeal for dusting
1. If using a bread machine, add all of the ingredients for the dough in the exact order listed into the pan of your machine. Set it on "knead" and when the machine begins to mix the dough, combine the food coloring with 1/4 cup of water and drizzle it into the mixture as it combines. After the dough is created let it rest to rise for an hour or so. Then remove it from the pan and go to step #3.
2. If you are not using a bread machine... combine the flours, cocoa, sugar, coffee, and salt in large bowl. Make a depression or "well" in the middle of the dry mixture. Pour the warm water into this "well"... then add the butter, honey, and yeast. Combine the food coloring drops with 1/4 cup of water and add that to the "well." Slowly mix the ingredients with a spoon, drawing the dry ingredients into the wet. When you can handle the dough, begin to combine it by hand, kneading the dough thoroughly for at least ten minutes, until it is very smooth and has a consistent color. Set the dough into a covered bowl in a warm place for an hour, to allow it to rise.
3. When the dough has risen to about double in size, punch it down and divide it into 8 even portions (divide dough in half, divide those halves in half, and then once more). Form the portions into tubular shaped loaves about 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. Sprinkle the entire surface of the loaves with cornmeal and place them on a cookie sheet or two. Cover the cookie sheet(s) with plastic wrap and let the dough rise once more for another hour in a warm location.
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Uncover the dough and bake it for 20-24 minutes in the hot oven. Loaves should begin to darken slightly on top when done. Serve warm with a sharp bread knife and butter on the side. If you want whipped butter, like you get at the restaurant, just use an electric mixer on high speed to whip some butter until it's fluffy. Makes 8 small loaves.
Tidbits
It is normal for this dough to be a bit tacky and to seem somewhat thin. Just be sure to add plenty of flour to your hands and work surface when working with the dough to prevent sticking. If you are able to find caramel color, you can use that rather than the food coloring formula described in the recipe. Just measure 1 tablespoon of caramel color into the dough mixture where the recipe uses food coloring and water.
A Minneapolis city worker is worried about blood in the sewer system because while he was cleaning the system, blood sprayed out of a hole and got all over him. "We could tell it was blood, I mean, a large amount of blood," said Minneapolis Sewer Maintenance Worker Ron Huebner. It happened in March 2007 in Northeast Minneapolis near a lab that does medical testing and dumps blood into the sewer. It is
allowed, but the city is now making changes to help protect workers in the future. "Blood just all over my face, in my mouth, I could taste it. It was terrible. I had it in my mouth and I kept spitting and I couldn't get rid of it," said Huebner. Huebner said he hasn't been sleeping much. He's worried about the blood that he swallowed when he was operating a jet machine to clean out the sewer. The Met Council said it was a mix of human and animal blood used in medical testing at this nearby lab. In fact, the company, R & D Systems, does have a permit to dump blood in the sewer system. However, Huebner wasn't protected or warned about the blood because his immediate bosses didn't know about it. "We have changed the procedure to ensure they're wearing goggles or a face mask while they are above that manhole," said Hamilton. The Met Council is changing the permit to say that the city has to warn the lab it's coming to clean the sewer, and the lab has to stop discharging blood until they're done. R & D told the city that the blood shouldn't present any risk, but Huebner's still worried. "I'm going to hope that nothing's wrong with me, but I don't want to see this happen to anyone else in my department," said Huebner.
Culled from: WCCO.Com
Generously submitted by: Marco
**********************************************************************
Okay, here's what I don't understand about this story: if your job is to clean sewers, isn't blood spraying out all over you the LEAST of your concerns??? Wouldn't you be covered head to toe in some sort of protective gear anyway?
*******
The Comtesse Recommends...
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
I'm ashamed to admit my naivety, but I never knew that Mormons could be so morbid! I mean, I've always thought of them as quite insane, but in a happy-happy-joy-joy wholesome Osmond holy underwear "no caffeine please" kind of way. But after reading this fascinating book, well, I've gained an entirely different perspective! Jon Krakauer exposes the grim truth behind Mormon fundamentalism, which (like most fundamentalist beliefs) basically amounts to a group of selfish men figuring out that when it comes to indulging in their darkest fantasies, there's no better scapegoat than God.
You want to kill your brother's wife? "God told me to do it!" You want to screw around with as many women as possible without guilt? "God told me to do it!" You want to slaughter people who don't share your beliefs who happen to be passing through your territory? "God told me to do it!" You want to impregnate your 12-year-old daughter? "God told me to do it!" There's literally NOTHING that you can't get away with!
And sadder still are the women who have been indoctrinated into this cruel subculture which teaches little girls that obedience is the supreme virtue. This naturally results in brainwashed girls like Elizabeth Smart feeling that she must willingly submit to her kidnapper "husband" without any attempt to escape, and it makes a 12-year-old girl feel that she is "sinful" if she resists her father's incestuous advances because God told him to do it. There are some truly sickening stories within these pages.
More than anything else, Under the Banner of Heaven is a compelling warning against the very real dangers of blind faith, regardless of what particular belief a person may ascribe too. A chilling read. (Hate mail to the usual address, please!)
*******
Morbid Link Du Jour!
The Clark County (Nevada) Coroner's Office has a website displaying the unidentified Las Vegas dead. Take a look - and perhaps what happens in Vegas *won't* stay in Vegas for a change!
Thanks to feanix for the link.
*******
Urban Exploration!
GK sends me the link to an Abandoned Asylums webring. There are some very interesting sites linked here.
Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bushman Bread
Along with an entree at this popular steakhouse chain comes a freshly baked loaf of this dark, sweet bread... served on its own cutting board with soft whipped butter. One distinctive feature of the bread is its color. How does the bread get so dark? While you may notice the recipe includes instant coffee and cocoa, these ingredients will not give the bread its deep dark chocolate brown color - not even close. Usually breads that are this dark - such as pumpernickel or dark bran muffins - contain caramel color, an ingredient often used in the industry to darken foods. Since your local supermarket will not likely have this mostly commercial product, we will make the caramel color from a mixture of three food colorings -- red, yellow, and blue. Just be sure to get the food coloring in the little droppers so that you can count the drops as you measure. That's very important to getting the color just right. You may also opt to keep the color out. The bread will certainly taste the same, but will look nothing like the real deal. I suggest using a bread machine for the mixing and kneading, if you have one.
Dough
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup honey
2 cups bread flour
1 2/3 cups wheat flour
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
2 teaspoons instant coffee
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 teaspoon (1 package) yeast
Coloring
1/4 cup water
75 drops red food coloring
45 drops blue food coloring
30 drops yellow food coloring
cornmeal for dusting
1. If using a bread machine, add all of the ingredients for the dough in the exact order listed into the pan of your machine. Set it on "knead" and when the machine begins to mix the dough, combine the food coloring with 1/4 cup of water and drizzle it into the mixture as it combines. After the dough is created let it rest to rise for an hour or so. Then remove it from the pan and go to step #3.
2. If you are not using a bread machine... combine the flours, cocoa, sugar, coffee, and salt in large bowl. Make a depression or "well" in the middle of the dry mixture. Pour the warm water into this "well"... then add the butter, honey, and yeast. Combine the food coloring drops with 1/4 cup of water and add that to the "well." Slowly mix the ingredients with a spoon, drawing the dry ingredients into the wet. When you can handle the dough, begin to combine it by hand, kneading the dough thoroughly for at least ten minutes, until it is very smooth and has a consistent color. Set the dough into a covered bowl in a warm place for an hour, to allow it to rise.
3. When the dough has risen to about double in size, punch it down and divide it into 8 even portions (divide dough in half, divide those halves in half, and then once more). Form the portions into tubular shaped loaves about 8 inches long and 2 inches wide. Sprinkle the entire surface of the loaves with cornmeal and place them on a cookie sheet or two. Cover the cookie sheet(s) with plastic wrap and let the dough rise once more for another hour in a warm location.
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Uncover the dough and bake it for 20-24 minutes in the hot oven. Loaves should begin to darken slightly on top when done. Serve warm with a sharp bread knife and butter on the side. If you want whipped butter, like you get at the restaurant, just use an electric mixer on high speed to whip some butter until it's fluffy. Makes 8 small loaves.
Tidbits
It is normal for this dough to be a bit tacky and to seem somewhat thin. Just be sure to add plenty of flour to your hands and work surface when working with the dough to prevent sticking. If you are able to find caramel color, you can use that rather than the food coloring formula described in the recipe. Just measure 1 tablespoon of caramel color into the dough mixture where the recipe uses food coloring and water.
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posted by Flami at 12:30:00 AM
6 Comments:
Mormon fundamentalists are different from mainstream Mormons. You cannot judge an entire religion by its lunatic fringe. Every religion has its crazies. But the lunatic fringe does not represent the religion, it represents itself while using religion as an excuse for doing evil, twisted things. But that's not the fault of religion. It's the fault of the crazies. Even athiesm has its crazies. Look at Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin(yes, I know they're long dead, but they're still good examples).The reason Elizabeth Smart submitted to her kidnapper is because he told her he had followers watching her family and if she tried anything she and her family would all be killed. He'd convinced her that the police would never find them, and during her captivity she was repeatedly sexually, emotionally, psychologically, verbally and mentally abused(and possibly physically abused), terrorized, tied to trees and neglected. After all that abuse I'm astonished that the poor girl is still sane. Because her kidnappers were psychotic, she felt she had to submit to them to stay alive and to keep her family safe. That's not religious indoctrination, that's survival.
I don't write the Morbid Fact Du Jour. I just copy and paste it since I'm twisted. ;)
But Mormons are pretty much all insane by definition - CULT PEOPLE!
Mormon FUNDAMENTALISTS are all insane by defintion. You're judging the religion by its lunatic fringe. How are mainstream Mormons insane? They renounced polygamy, honor killings, and everything else Krakauer wrote about in his book over a century ago. You can't lump them in with the fanatics. The mainstream Mormons are law-abiding citizens. The fundamentalists are criminals who use God and religion as excuses to be criminals.
Yeah, I'm soooooo sure they did. Someone who defends Elizabeth Smart, fine. But someone with the name LIZFAN? Although I didn't know there were fan clubs around that girl, I sure do now!
My screenname is "Lizfan" because I am a fan of the character Elizabeth Weir(played by Torri Higgenson) on the tv show "Stargate Atlantis". It has nothing to do with Elizabeth Smart. And in case you're wondering, I like the name Elizabeth better than the name Torri, Weir, or Higgenson.
Heh, I probably would like that name better than those other options as well. Interesting info.
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